Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Virginia's public schools have long enjoyed a reputation for academic excellence. — Glenn Youngkin Copy Share Image
Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Excellence is a custom at the land of greatness, it drives our culture.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Always check your time and ask if you are moving closer or away from your greatness” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are trying to create a culture of excellence. To create that culture has been tough. It hasn't been there in Pakistan… — Mickey Arthur Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
It's as predictable as the sun rising in the morning. Every time Barack Obama's poll numbers rise you can be certain he's… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress.… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
“I tried to bunked classes, I skipped lectures, I cheated in exams, I lied to my teachers and some stuff were taken… — Nathaniel E. Quimada Copy Share Image
“Craftsmanship cements a relationship of trust between buyer and seller, worker and employer, and expects something of both. It is about caring… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I don't want to cower at somebody's interpretation of what I'm about. I'm supposed to be doing it and I'm going to… — Mike Matheny Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Perfection may not be possible, but striving for excellence is.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
